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Benefits of Granta for Getting Materials Information

What does Granta offer that most other methods of accessing materials information do not?

Interactivity - data on paper, e.g., in handbooks, cannot be easily searched, shared, analyzed, and manipulated. CD-ROM-based information is better, but does not offer a genuinely shared resource that is always instantly available. A GRANTA MI database accessed via your network or the Internet, maximizes interactivity and is also the best way to store and explore the important relationships between items of data.

Speed and scalability - access to the database must be quick. In multi-user environments, this speed must be maintained as the number of users and sites accessing the data grows. GRANTA MI is fast, robust, and designed for enterprise deployment.

Cost and licensing - the cost of data access must also be practical for multi-user access. Many online or CD-ROM-based databases do not offer realistic pricing for these circumstances, or they have licensing policies that are unclear or inflexible. GRANTA MI is cost-effective.

Integration with software - it must be easy to transfer data into computer-aided engineering and other software applications. GRANTA MI even allows its data to be accessed directly within such systems.

Integration with other data - one reference is rarely the single source of required information on a particular topic. You need to combine and compare data from different external references and from proprietary in-house sources. GRANTA MI creates a single source for all of your materials data.

Pedigree and traceability - you need to rely on your data. It must be well-referenced and, where available, the link to source data or reference documents needs to be made as simple as possible. GRANTA MI preserves the entire history of data, and captures the links between related pieces of information.

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